Have you ever noticed your mind wandering when driving your car, washing the dishes, vacuuming the house or doing other familiar and repetitive tasks? You might be worrying about a faux pas you made in conversation, or fantasizing about a future holiday. Either way, you’re...
How would you define happiness? Unsurprisingly, the answers differ, person to person. Some would say family, others would say travel, other might say helping others, or enjoying free time to themselves. The big challenge with happiness is not just that there is no ‘one size fits...
If you are reading this, it is likely that you, or someone you know, is caring for a person with a disability. Whilst unconditional love and support are at the foundations of a caring relationship, it can also take a toll on the carer’s sense...
Feelings of anxiety, loneliness and isolation have been a common experience for many the two-and-a-bit years since the COVID-19 pandemic began. During Melbourne’s rolling lockdowns, you didn’t see friends or family the way you might have been used to. Most likely, you missed colleagues from...
We all know that feeling of being nervous or uncomfortable in social settings. You might have noticed your palms getting sweaty when you meet someone new, or having ‘brain freeze’ when giving a presentation at work. Public speaking, walking into a room full of strangers...
Goal setting is an important first step in achieving anything, whether personally or professionally. However, with the best intentions in the world, we often set goals for ourselves but fail to achieve them. This can set us up for a pattern of goal setting, failure,...
By Kelsie Bufton When we are faced with a really difficult situation we can easily be overcome by our emotions. When this happens, it can be very difficult to think clearly and problem solve a situation. We might feel as though we are losing control, and...
By Kelsie Bufton Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) refers to three states of mind to describe our different states of thinking, feeling and behaving: Emotion Mind, Reason Mind, and the ever allusive…Wise Mind. Learning to recognise when you are in these different states of mind can be...
By Ishma Alvi. We talk about ‘gut instincts', and have experiences we describe as ‘gut wrenching’. It now looks like these aren’t simply visceral sensations but indications of an actual connection not simply between mind and body, but specifically between the brain and gut. Before we delve...
By Carmen Beaumont. As Victorians, we certainly have had our fair share of lockdowns. This inevitably resulted in adapting how we used to do things such as schooling and working and associated challenges in doing so, not to mention increased isolation and the impact on our...